40 Academic Women Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

The American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAAS) recently announced the selection of 213 new members, including 37 new fellows from foreign nations. Membership in the academy is offered to leaders in the natural sciences, social sciences, humanities, arts, business, public affairs, and the nonprofit sectors.

The academy was founded in 1780. Members have included George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Margaret Meade, and Martin Luther King Jr. The current membership includes more than 250 Nobel Prize winners.

Through an analysis of the list of new fellows conducted by WIAReport, it appears that 51 of the new members of the AAAS are women. Thus, women are nearly 29 percent of all new American fellows in the academy. Some 40 of the 51 new women members have current ties to the academic world.

Donna Gail Blackmond is a professor of chemistry at the Scripps Institute in San Diego, California. She holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the University of Pittsburgh and a Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh.

Andrea Louise Campbell is the Arthur and Ruth Sloan Professor of Political Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She is a graduate of Harvard University and holds a Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley.

Brandice Canes-Wrone is the Donald E. Stokes Professor of Public and Internatioanal Affairs at Princeton University in New Jersey. She is a graduate of Princeton University and holds a Ph.D. from Stanford University in California.

Michelene T.H. Chi is the Dorothy Bray Endowed Professor of Science and Teaching at Arizona State University. She is a native of Indonesia.

Rey Chow is the Anne Firor Scott Professor of Literature at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina. She is a graduate of the University of Hong Kong and holds a master’s degree and a P.D. from Stanford University.

Kathleen A. Deagan is the Distinguished Research Curator of Archaeology at the Florida Museum of Natural History on the campus of the University of Florida. She holds a bachelor’s degree and a Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of Florida.

Jill Dolan is the Annan Professor of English and a professor of theatre at Princeton University in New Jersey. She joined the Princeton faculty in 2008. She holds a Ph.D. in performance studies from New York Unversity.

Jennifer L. Eberhardt is an associate professor of psychology at Stanford University. Dr. Eberhardt has been affiliated with Stanford University since 1998. Previously, she taught at Yale University. Dr. Eberhardt is a graduate of the University of Cincinnati. She holds a Ph.D. from Harvard University.

Patricia Buckley Ebrey is the Williams Family Endowed Professor of History at the University of Washington. She is a graduate of the University of Chicago and earned a master’s degree and Ph.D. from Columbia University.

Janet Franklin is a professor of geographical science and urban planning at Arizona State University. She holds a bachelor’s degree, a master’s degree, and a Ph.D. in geography from the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Lila M. Gierasch is a Distinguished Professor of biochemistry and molecular biology at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. She is a graduate of Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley, Massachusetts, and holds a Ph.D. from Harvard University.

Margaret P. Gilbert holds the Abraham I. Melden Chair in Moral Philosophy at the University of California, Irvine. She is a graduate of the University of Cambridge in England and holds a Ph.D. from the University of Oxford.

Joanne S. Gowa is the William P. Boswell Professor of World Politics of Peace and War at Princeton University in New Jersey. She is a summa cum laude graduate of Tufts University and holds a master of public administration degree and a Ph.D. from Princeton University.

M. Temple Grandin is a professor of livestock behavior and welfare at Colorado State University. A proponent of autism awareness, Professor Grandin is a graduate of Franklin Pierce College in Rindge, New Hampshire. She holds a master’s degree from Arizona State University and a Ph.D. in animal science from the University of Illinois.

Sandra E. Greene is a professor of history at Cornell University. A graduate of Kalamazoo College in Michigan, she holds a master’s degree and a Ph.D. from Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. Dr. Greene is the author of West African Narratives of Slavery Texts from Late 19th and early 20th Century Ghana (Indiana University Press, 2011).

Beatrice H. Hahn is a professor of medicine at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. A leading researcher on HIV, Dr. Hahn earned her medical degree at the University of Munich in Germany.

Jacqueline Hewitt is a professor of physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She also serves as the director of the Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research at the university. Dr. Hewitt is a graduate of Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania and holds a Ph.D. in physics from MIT.

Marianne Hirsch is the William Peterfield Trent Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University in New York City. Professor Hirsch holds bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral degrees, all from Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island.

Barbara V. Jacak is a professor of physics at the University of California, Berkeley. Professor Jacak is a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley and holds a Ph.D. from Michigan State University.

Anna R. Karlin is the Microsoft Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Washington in Seattle. She holds a Ph.D. from Stanford University.

Chryssa Kouveliotou is a professor of astrophysics at George Washington University in the District of Columbia. She previously was a NASA scientist. She is a graduate of the National University of Athens in Greece. Dr. Kouveliotou holds a master’s degree from the University of Sussex in England and a Ph.D. in astrophysics from the Technical University of Munich in Germany.

Bryna R. Kra is the Sarah Rebecca Roland Professor of Mathematics at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. She has been on the Northwestern faculty since 2004. Professor Kra is a graduate of Harvard University and holds a Ph.D. from Stanford University.

M. Magdalene Lampert is the George Herbert Mead Collegiate Professor in Education at the University of Michigan. She has taught at the university since 1993. Professor Lampert is a graduate of Chestnut Hill College in Philadelphia and holds a master’s degree from Temple University and an educational doctorate from Harvard University.

Carol D. Lee is the Edwina S. Tarry Professor of Education and Social Policy at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. Professor Lee is a graduate of the University of Illinois and holds a master’s degree and a Ph.D. in education from the University of Chicago.

Helen E. Longino is the Clarence Irving Lewis Professor of Philosophy at Stanford University in California. A graduate of Barnard College in New York City, Professor Longino holds a master’s degree from the University of Sussex in England and a Ph.D. in philosophy from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore.

M. Elizabeth Magill is dean of Stanford Law School. Before coming to Stanford in 2012, she taught at the University of Virginia School of Law. Professor Magill is a graduate of Yale University and the University of Virginia School of Law.

Ulrike Malmendier is the Edward J. and Mollie Arnold Professor of Finance at the University of California, Berkeley. She holds bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral degrees all from the University of Bonn in Germany. She holds a second Ph.D. in business economics from Harvard University.

Kelsey C. Martin is a professor of biological chemistry and dean of the David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles. Dr. Martin is a graduate of Harvard University, where she majored in English. After a term in the Peace Corps, she earned a medical degree and a Ph.D. in molecular biophysics and biochemistry at Yale University.

Toshiko Mori is the Robert B. Hubbard Professor in the Practice of Architecture at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. She holds a degree in architecture from Cooper Union in New York City.

Carol Ann Newsom is the Charles Howard Candler Professor of the Old Testament at the Candler School of Theology at Emory University in Atlanta. She is a graduate of Birmingham Southern College and holds a master of divinity degree and a Ph.D. from Harvard University.

Eva Nogales is a professor of biochemistry and molecular biology at the University of California, Berkeley. She is a graduate of the Autonomous University of Madrid and holds a Ph.D. from the University of Keele in England.

Sara P. Otto is a professor of zoology at the University of British Columbia. She was selected as a MacArthur Fellow in 2011. Dr. Otto holds a bachelor’s degree and a Ph.D. from Stanford University.

Terry A. Plank is the Arthur D. Storke Memorial Professor of Geochemistry at Columbia University in New York. She is a summa cum laude graduate of Dartmouth College and holds a Ph.D. in geosciences from Columbia University.

Jennifer J. Rabb is president of Hunter College in New York City. She has held this post since 2001. President Rabb is a graduate of Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, and Harvard Law School. She earned a master of public administration degree from Princeton University.

Mary Ann Rankin is a professor of biology, provost, and senior vice president at the University of Maryland, College Park. She is a graduate of Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, and holds a Ph.D. in the physiology and behavior from the University of Iowa.

Melanie S. Sanford is the Moses Gomberg Collegiate Professor of Chemistry at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. She holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Yale University and a Ph.D. from the California Institute of Technology.

Kim Lane Scheppele is the Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Sociology and International Affairs at Princeton University. She is a graduate of Barnard College in New York City and holds a master’s degree and a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago.

Lisa Tauxe is a Distinguished Professor of Geophysics at the University of California, San Diego. Professor Tauxe is a graduate of Yale University and holds a master’s degree and a Ph.D. from Columbia University in New York City.

Anne M. Villeneuve is a professor of genetics and developmental biology at Stanford University. She earned a bachelor’s degree in biochemistry at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana and a Ph.D. in biology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Elke U. Weber is the Jerome A. Chazen Professor of International Business at Columbia University. Professor Weber is a graduate of York University in Toronto, Ontario. She holds a master’s degree and a Ph.D. from Harvard University. Dr. Weber has been on the faculty at Columbia since 1999.